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THE NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE.
[No. 48

SCHEDULE.

Given under the hand of His Excellency the Right Honourable David, Earl of Glasgow; Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George; Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over Her Majesty’s Colony of New Zealand and its Dependencies; and issued under the Seal of the said Colony, at the Government House, at Wellington, this twenty-fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

GOD SAVE THE QUEEN!

Native Land proposed to be taken for the Construction of a Police Station in Hawke’s Bay County.

GLASGOW, Governor.

ORDER IN COUNCIL.

At the Government House, at Wellington, this nineteenth day of June, 1896.

Present:

His Excellency the Governor in Council.

WHEREAS the land mentioned in the Schedule hereto is required to be taken for a public work, to wit, the construction of a police station in Hawke’s Bay County: And whereas the said land is held or occupied by Native owners under a title which is not derived from the Crown: And whereas a map has been prepared in duplicate showing accurately the position and extent of the said land, as required by the eighty-eighth section of “The Public Works Act, 1894”:

Now, therefore, in pursuance and exercise of the powers vested in him by the eighty-eighth section of the said Act, and of all other powers in anywise enabling him in this behalf, His Excellency the Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, by and with the advice and consent of the Executive Council of the said colony, doth hereby declare that the land shown upon such map, and described in the Schedule hereto, shall be deemed to be taken for the purposes of the said police station as from the first day of August, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

SCHEDULE.

in the Provincial District of Wellington: as the said parcel of land is more particularly delineated on the plan marked P.W.D. 17665, deposited in the office of the Minister for Public Works, at Wellington, in the Provincial District of Wellington, and thereon coloured purple.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Warrant authorising the County Council of Rangitikei to construct a Bridge over the Rangitikei River, at the Bull’s Township, and apportioning the Cost of the Bridge between the said Council, the Manawatu County Council, and the Bull’s Town Board.

GLASGOW, Governor.

WHEREAS by section one hundred and thirteen of “The Public Works Act Amendment Act, 1894” (hereinafter termed “the said Act”), it is, inter alia, enacted that, in any case where the local authority of any district desires to construct a bridge in any position that will, in its opinion, be of advantage and benefit to the whole or any considerable portion of the inhabitants of an adjacent district or districts, as well as to the inhabitants of its own district, and where it is, in the opinion of such local authority, reasonable that the local authority or local authorities of such district or districts whose inhabitants are to be so benefited should contribute to the cost of constructing or establishing the said bridge, the provisions in the said section mentioned shall have effect:

And whereas the County Council of Rangitikei has made application to the Governor to authorise the construction of the work mentioned in the Schedule hereto (hereinafter referred to as “the said work”), and to apportion the cost of constructing the said work between the said Council, the Manawatu County Council, and the Bull’s Town Board:

And whereas the County Council of Rangitikei has prepared plans, specifications, and estimates of the work of constructing the said bridge, and has sent a copy of same to the office of the Manawatu County Council, the Bull’s Town Board, and to the Minister for Public Works, together with a notice as required by the hereinbefore-in part recited Act:

And whereas no objection to the proposal so made has been lodged as provided by the said Act, and the County Council of Rangitikei, on the expiration of the period of two months provided by the said Act, has made application to the Governor for power to construct the work on the terms mentioned in the notice aforesaid:

And whereas the Governor is of opinion that the work should be done:

Now, therefore, I, David, Earl of Glasgow, Governor of the Colony of New Zealand, in pursuance and exercise of the power and authority vested in me by the said Act, do hereby authorise the County Council of Rangitikei to construct the said work; and I do hereby declare that the cost of constructing the said work, less the sum provided by the Rangitikei Toll-bridge Account, shall be borne in the following proportions: i.e., by the County Council of Rangitikei, seven-seventeenths; by the Manawatu County Council, seven-seventeenths; and by the Bull’s Town Board, three-seventeenths of the cost.

SCHEDULE.

The bridge over the Rangitikei River, at the place where the main road from the Township of Sanson to the Township of Bull’s crosses the said river, said site being delineated upon the plan marked S.G. 28635, deposited in the Head Office of the Department of Lands and Survey, at Wellington, in the Wellington Land District, and thereon coloured red.

As witness the hand of His Excellency the Governor, this twenty-third day of June, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-six.

JOHN McKENZIE,
Minister of Lands.

Member of Executive Council resigned.

Executive Council Chamber,
Wellington, 16th June, 1896.

His Excellency the Governor in Council has this day been pleased to accept the resignation by

The Honourable Joseph George Ward

of his office as a member of the Executive Council of the Colony of New Zealand.

ALEX. WILLIS,
Clerk of the Executive Council.

Resignation of Colonial Treasurer, &c., accepted.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 16th June, 1896.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to accept the resignation by

The Honourable Joseph George Ward

of his offices as Colonial Treasurer, Commissioner of Customs, Postmaster-General, Electric Telegraph Commissioner, and Minister of Marine, as from 16th June, 1896.

H. G. FEILDEN, A.D.C.,
Acting Private Secretary.

Colonial Treasurer, &c., appointed.

Private Secretary’s Office,
Wellington, 22nd June, 1896.

His Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint

The Honourable Richard John Seddon